Orange Lutheran High School completed a facilities upgrade in 2014 for $15 million. Now the Orange Unified School District is asking voters to approve Measure S, a bond measure, that will provide $72 million per high school for similar upgrades. What gives?

Orange Lutheran is over 40-years old and enrolls 1,300 students. The 1-year-long upgrade and expansion project was funded with $5-million in school reserves, $5-million in financing and $5-million in donations. It added 40,000 square feet, ripped up floors, added technology upgrades, new furnishings, a comfy place for students to hang out with couches, flat-screen TVs and a coffee-juice bar …the works! Continue reading→

Guess who beat Deborah Pauly with an Anti-Measure S ballot argument? Believe it or not, former Orange Unified School District Trustee Steve Rocco was picked to be the author of the Anti-Measure S Ballot argument. (Measure S is the latest attempt by the OUSD to pass a bond measure). Rocco apparently won over Pauly via a coin toss.

Pauly’s luck seems to be not getting any better. You might recall that Paul, a former Villa Park City Councilwoman, was arrested last year (and still faces charges) for an alleged DUI, then lost her recent Assembly primary race, and now she has been beaten by Rocco in the race to author the anti-OUSD Measure S Ballot Argument. Continue reading→